"(It) is a computer generated psychobiological simulation under development in the Laboratory of Animate Technologies and is an experimental vehicle incorporating computational models of basic neural systems involved in interactive behaviour and learning."

Real-life learning models are incorporated into BabyX, such as association, conditioning, repetition, and reinforcement learning.

The researchers added: "BabyX embodies many of the technologies we work on in the laboratory and is under continuous development, in its neural models, sensing systems, and also the realism of its real time computer graphics."